European Parliament and Global Health - Polymorphic Actorness and Multiple Roles

This book examines the actorness of the European Parliament (EP) and its roles in global health. In doing so, it appreciates to what extent this democratically elected entity can be considered as a global health actor.
Applying an original analytical framework to measure actorness, the book assesses the EP's capacity to act regarding five major global health issues including the pandemic response, access to essential medicines in developing countries, international trade and global health, medical research and development in the field of poverty-related and neglected diseases (PRNDs), and global health governance. It demonstrates that, despite many challenges, the EP has indeed displayed a polymorphic actorness and multiple roles towards most of these global health issues, especially by succeeding in mobilizing its main competences and instruments to deal with them, finalizing initiatives, and having a substantive influence on the way they were addressed. As such, the book reveals the salience of democratically elected institutions for global health governance.
This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of European studies, global and regional health, legislative studies, and International Relations, but also to parliamentarians and (non-) governmental actors engaged in global health.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The European Parliament: A global health actor? 1. Assessing the EP's actorness in global health 2. The EP and Ebola epidemics in Africa 3. The EP and access to essential medicines 4. The EP and the health implications of the EU-India FTA 5. The EP and R&D on poverty-related neglected diseases 6. The EP and Taiwan's participation in the WHA/WHO. Conclusion - The EP and global health: Polymorphic actorness and multiple roles

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Vincent Rollet is Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of European Studies (GIES), Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Vincent Rollet, Vincent (Wenzao Ursuline University of Lan Rollet
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032813615
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281361-5
• Seiten: 304
• Serie: Routledge Studies on Government and the European Union
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Personal & public health, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, EU (European Union), Personal and public health / health education, EU & European institutions, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations